Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Indiana

Welch Packaging Indianapolis

Name: Welch Packaging Indianapolis Workplace Safety Data
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Indianapolis, IN · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Welch Packaging Indianapolis runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Welch Packaging Indianapolis: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Packaging Indianapolis safety composite

Welch Packaging Indianapolis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Welch Packaging Indianapolis: 0.0 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2021

Welch Packaging Indianapolis's TCR rose 10.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

DART 5.1 DART
RANK #49/67
PHOTO OH201 West Chester -…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OH201 West Chester - Trey (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Welch Packaging Indianapolis averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Welch Packaging Indianapolis TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Packaging Indianapolis falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 67 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Indiana.

Welch Packaging Indianapolis (98 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Welch Packaging Indianapolis has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries
2021	10.2	5.1	6
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IN · Indianapolis

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	OH201 West Chester - Trey	WEST CHESTER, OH	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BCI Koch Division	VICTOR, NY	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper	PUTNAM, CT	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pratt (Love Box) LLC	LINCOLN, NE	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Logansport Utilites	LOGANSPORT, IN	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pemberton Davis Electric	MISHAWAKA	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	American Beverage Marketers	NEW ALBANY	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	House of Fara, Inc	LA PORTE	98 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Indiana University Health, Inc	Indianapolis	7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Methodist Hospital	Indianapolis	6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center	Indianapolis	6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lilly Technology Center	Indianapolis	6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR	RGS Products Inc	Waterford, PA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fairfield - OBH	Fairfield, IA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	E&S Precision Machine, Inc.	Modesto, CA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Progressive Roofing Inc	Buffalo, NY	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Perfection Servo Hydraulics -Batavia	Batavia, IL	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Johnson Health Tech Retail Inc	Cottage Grove, WI	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tate Access Floors - Headquarters	Jessup, MD	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Progress Glass Co., Inc.	San Francisco, CA	98 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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